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Anomaly detection from images captured using camera sensors is one of the mainstream applications at the industrial level. Particularly, it maintains the quality and optimizes the efficiency in production processes across diverse industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Abdelrahman Alzarooni , Ehtesham Iqbal , Samee Ullah Khan , Sajid Javed , Brain Moyo , Yusra Abdulrahman

Visual anomaly detection is a strongly application-driven field of research. Consequently, the connection between academia and industry is of paramount importance. In this regard, we present the VAND 3.0 Challenge to showcase current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lars Heckler-Kram , Ashwin Vaidya , Jan-Hendrik Neudeck , Ulla Scheler , Dick Ameln , Samet Akcay , Paula Ramos

In recent years, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant attention due to its ability to identify defects using only normal images during training. Many VAD models work without supervision but are still able to provide visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Arianna Stropeni , Valentina Zaccaria , Francesco Borsatti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Manuel Barusco , Gian Antonio Susto

Though anomaly detection (AD) can be viewed as a classification problem (nominal vs. anomalous) it is usually treated in an unsupervised manner since one typically does not have access to, or it is infeasible to utilize, a dataset that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Lukas Ruff , Robert A. Vandermeulen , Billy Joe Franks , Klaus-Robert Müller , Marius Kloft

Visual defect assessment is a form of anomaly detection. This is very relevant in finding faults such as cracks and markings in various surface inspection tasks like pavement and automotive parts. The task involves detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Unsupervised anomaly detection and localization, as of one the most practical and challenging problems in computer vision, has received great attention in recent years. From the time the MVTec AD dataset was proposed to the present, new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ye Zheng , Xiang Wang , Yu Qi , Wei Li , Liwei Wu

Recent studies on visual anomaly detection (AD) of industrial objects/textures have achieved quite good performance. They consider an unsupervised setting, specifically the one-class setting, in which we assume the availability of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jie Zhang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Semi-supervised video anomaly detection (VAD) methods formulate the task of anomaly detection as detection of deviations from the learned normal patterns. Previous works in the field (reconstruction or prediction-based methods) suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Mohammad Baradaran , Robert Bergevin

Visual anomaly detection (AD) presents significant challenges due to the scarcity of anomalous data samples. While numerous works have been proposed to synthesize anomalous samples, these synthetic anomalies often lack authenticity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Han Sun , Yunkang Cao , Hao Dong , Olga Fink

Unsupervised visual anomaly detection from multi-view images presents a significant challenge: distinguishing genuine defects from benign appearance variations caused by viewpoint changes. Existing methods, often designed for single-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xintao Chen , Xiaohao Xu , Bozhong Zheng , Yun Liu , Yingna Wu

The rapid expansion of data from diverse sources has made anomaly detection (AD) increasingly essential for identifying unexpected observations that may signal system failures, security breaches, or fraud. As datasets become more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoqi Huang , Ping Wang , Jianhua Pei , Jiacheng Wang , Shahen Alexanian , Dusit Niyato

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) finds widespread applications in security surveillance, traffic monitoring, industrial monitoring, and healthcare. Despite extensive research efforts, there remains a lack of concise reviews that provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Liyun Zhu , Lei Wang , Arjun Raj , Tom Gedeon , Chen Chen

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is an important topic in computer vision. Motivated by the recent advances in self-supervised learning, this paper addresses VAD by solving an intuitive yet challenging pretext task, i.e., spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Guodong Wang , Yunhong Wang , Jie Qin , Dongming Zhang , Xiuguo Bao , Di Huang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for video analysis and surveillance in computer vision. However, existing VAD models rely on learned normal patterns, which makes them difficult to apply to diverse environments. Consequently, users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Sunghyun Ahn , Youngwan Jo , Kijung Lee , Sein Kwon , Inpyo Hong , Sanghyun Park

Humans detect real-world object anomalies by perceiving, interacting, and reasoning based on object-conditioned physical knowledge. The long-term goal of Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD) is to enable machines to autonomously replicate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Wenqiao Li , Yao Gu , Xintao Chen , Xiaohao Xu , Ming Hu , Xiaonan Huang , Yingna Wu

Anomaly detection (AD) is a machine learning task that identifies anomalies by learning patterns from normal training data. In many real-world scenarios, anomalies vary in severity, from minor anomalies with little risk to severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tri Cao , Minh-Huy Trinh , Ailin Deng , Quoc-Nam Nguyen , Khoa Duong , Ngai-Man Cheung , Bryan Hooi

This paper introduces a novel anomaly detection (AD) problem aimed at identifying `odd-looking' objects within a scene by comparing them to other objects present. Unlike traditional AD benchmarks with fixed anomaly criteria, our task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ankan Bhunia , Changjian Li , Hakan Bilen

Video anomaly detection (VAD) with weak supervision has achieved remarkable performance in utilizing video-level labels to discriminate whether a video frame is normal or abnormal. However, current approaches are inherently limited to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Jing Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

This study explores the recently proposed and challenging multi-view Anomaly Detection (AD) task. Single-view tasks will encounter blind spots from other perspectives, resulting in inaccuracies in sample-level prediction. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoyang He , Jiangning Zhang , Guanzhong Tian , Chengjie Wang , Lei Xie

Anomaly Detection (AD), as a critical problem, has been widely discussed. In this paper, we specialize in one specific problem, Visual Defect Detection (VDD), in many industrial applications. And in practice, defect image samples are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yapeng Teng , Haoyang Li , Fuzhen Cai , Ming Shao , Siyu Xia